NEW YORK (Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010) – Major League Soccer held its 2010 Expansion Draft today for the Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps FC, who begin MLS play in 2011. Each team selected 10 players from among nearly 200 available players unprotected by Major League Soccer clubs.

Four teams did not have a player selected: Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, New England Revolution, and New York Red Bulls. Eight teams had two players selected, while four teams had just one player taken in the Expansion Draft.

Below is a complete list of players selected in this year’s draft.

2010 MLS Expansion Draft Selections

(listed in order of selection)

Pick

Selcted by

Player

Position

Former Club

1

Portland

Dax McCarty

Midfielder

FC Dallas

2

Vancouver

Sanna Nyassi

Midfielder

Seattle Sounders FC

3

Portland

Eric Brunner

Defender

Columbus Crew

4

Vancouver

Atiba Harris

Forward/Midfielder

FC Dallas

5

Portland

Adam Moffat

Midfielder

Columbus Crew

6

Vancouver

Nathan Sturgis

Defender

Seattle Sounders FC

7

Portland

Anthony Wallace

Defender/Midfielder

Colorado Rapids

8

Vancouver

Shea Salinas

Midfielder

Philadelphia Union

9

Portland

David Horst

Defender

Real Salt Lake

10

Vancouver

Alan Gordon

Forward

Chivas USA

11

Portland

Robbie Findley

Forward

Real Salt Lake

12

Vancouver

O’Brian White

Forward

Toronto FC

13

Portland

Peter Lowry

Midfielder

Chicago Fire

14

Vancouver

Alejandro Moreno

Forward

Philadelphia Union

15

Portland

Jonathan Bornstein

Defender

Chivas USA

16

Vancouver

Joe Cannon

Goalkeeper

San Jose Earthquakes

17

Portland

Jordan Graye

Defender

D.C. United

18

Vancouver

Jonathan Leathers

Defender

Sporting Kansas City

19

Portland

Arturo Alvarez

Forward/Midfielder

San Jose Earthquakes

20

Vancouver

John Thorrington

Midfielder

Chicago Fire

Portland Timbers Expansion Draft Selections

(listed in alphabetical order)

Player

Position

Former Club

Arturo Alvarez

Forward/Midfielder

San Jose Earthquakes

Eric Brunner

Defender

Columbus Crew

Jonathan Bornstein

Defender

Chivas USA

Robbie Findley

Forward

Real Salt Lake

Jordan Graye

Defender

D.C. United

David Horst

Defender

Real Salt Lake

Peter Lowry

Midfielder

Chicago Fire

Dax McCarty

Midfielder

FC Dallas

Adam Moffat

Midfielder

Columbus Crew

Anthony Wallace

Defender/Midfielder

Colorado Rapids

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Expansion Draft Selections

(listed in alphabetical order)

Player

Position

Former Club

Joe Cannon

Goalkeeper

San Jose Earthquakes

Alan Gordon

Forward

Chivas USA

Atiba Harris

Forward/Midfielder

FC Dallas

Jonathan Leathers

Defender

Sporting Kansas City

Alejandro Moreno

Forward

Philadelphia Union

Sanna Nyassi

Midfielder

Seattle Sounders FC

Shea Salinas

Midfielder

Philadelphia Union

Nathan Sturgis

Defender

Seattle Sounders FC

John Thorrington

Midfielder

Chicago Fire

O’Brian White

Forward

Toronto FC

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COMPLETE LIST OF AVAILABLE PLAYERS FOR THE 2010 EXPANSION DRAFT

Chivas USA

Borja, Carlos

Bornstein, Jonathan selected #8 by Portland Timbers

Chijindu, Chukwudi

Espinoza, Rodolfo

Galindo, Maykel

Gordon, Alan selected #5 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Kennedy, Dan

Lillingston, Eduardo

Maldonado, Giancarlo

Mayen, Gerson

Padilla, Jesus

Romero, Osael

Saragosa, Marcelo

Trujillo, Mariano – PULLED

Zotinca, Alex

Chicago Fire

Castillo, Nery

Dykstra, Andrew

John, Collins

Krol, Krzysztof

Ljungberg, Freddie

Lowry, Peter selected #7 by Portland Timbers

Robinson, Dasan – PULLED

Thorrington, John selected #10 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Umanzor, Deris

Colorado Rapids

Akpan, Andre

Amarikwa, Quincy

Ceus, Steward

Joyce, Ian

LaBauex, Ross

Lopez, Claudio

O’Brien, Ciaran

Palguta, Scott

Schunk, Ross

Thompson, Wells

Vagenas, Peter

Wallace, Anthony selected #4 by Portland Timbers

Columbus Crew

Brunner, Eric selected #2 by Portland Timbers

Burns, Kevin – PULLED by the Crew

Garey, Jason

Griffit, Leandre

Gruenebaum, Andy

Hejduk, Frankie

Moffat, Adam – selected #3 by Portland Timbers

Oughton, Duncan

Padula, Gino

Schelotto, Guillermo Barros

Williams, Joshua

FC Dallas

Avila, Eric

Cunningham, Jeff

Davies, Kyle

Edward, Edson

Guarda, Bruno

Harris, Atiba – selected #2 by Vancouver White Caps FC

Hernandez, Daniel – PULLED from draft by FC Dallas

McCarty, Dax – selected #1 by Portland Timbers

Rodriguez, Milton

Sala, Dario

Yeisley, Jason

D.C. United

Allsopp, Daniel

Barklage, Brandon

Cristman, Adam

Graye, Jordan selected #9 by Portland Timbers

Hernandez, Pablo

McTavish, Devon

Morsink, Kurt – PULLED

Pena, Juan

Perkins, Troy

Rice, Barry

Varela, Carlos

Houston Dynamo

Appiah, Samuel

Ashe, Corey

Cochrane, Ryan

Mulrooney, Richard

Ngwenya, Joseph

Obodai, Anthony

Oduro, Dominic

Onstad, Pat

Robinson, Eddie

Sporting Kansas City

Aiyegbusi, Korede

Beasley, Jamar

Chhetri, Sunil

Conrad, Jimmy

Diop, Birahim

Hercegfalvi, Zoltan

Hohlbein, Aaron

Kounenakis, Nick

Kronberg, Eric

Leathers, Jonathan selected #9 by Vancouver WhiteCaps

Myers, Chance

Thomas, Shavar

Wolff, Josh

LA Galaxy

Berhalter, Gregg

Cazumba, Alex

Da Silva, Leonardo

Jordan, Bryan

Kirovski, Jovan

Kovalenko, Dema

Magee, Mike

Marshall, Yohance

Perk, Brian

Saunders, Josh

New England Revolution

Boggs, Zak

Burpo, Preston

Colaluca, Nico

Dube, Kheli

Gibbs, Cory

Griffiths, Jason

Linck, Roberto

Murray, Tim

Phelan, Pat

Sinovic, Seth

Smith, Khano

Stolica, Ilija

New York Red Bulls

Angel, Juan Pablo

Boyens, Andrew

Chinn, Conor

da Luz, Austin

Garcia, Irving

Nielsen, Brian

Robinson, Carl

Salou, Ibrahim

Sassano, Luke

Sutton, Greg

Talley, Carey

Ubiparipovic, Sinisa

Philadelphia Union

Arrieta, Cristian

Coudet, Eduardo

Fred

Jacobson, Andrew

Knighton, Brad

Miglioranzi, Stefani

Moreno, Alejandro selected #7 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Noone, Joseph

Salinas, Shea selected #4 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Seitz, Chris – PULLED back

Zimmerman, Nick

Real Salt Lake

Alexandre, Jean

Campos, Pablo

Findley, Robbie selected #6 by Portland Timbers

Gonzalez, Nelson

Grabavoy, Ned

Horst, David selected #5 by Portland Timbers

McKenzie, Rauwshan

Melia, Timothy

Nimo, Alex

Reynish, Kyle

Russell, Robbie

Schuler, Chris

Warner, Collen

Williams, Andy

San Jose Earthquakes

Alvarez, Arturo selected #10 by Portland Timbers

Andre Luiz

Beitashour, Steve

Burling, Bobby

Cannon, Joe selected #8 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Corrales, Ramiro

Eduardo

Geovanni

Glen, Cornell

Leitch, Chris

Morrow, Justin

Ring, Brad

Ward, Tim – PULLED

Seattle Sounders FC

Baudet, Julien

Boss, Terry

Earls, Danny

Estrada, David

Gonzalez, Leonardo

Graham, Taylor

Ianni, Patrick

Levesque, Roger

Marshall, Tyrone

Montano, Miguel

Nkufo, Blaise

Noonan, Pat

Nyassi, Sanna – selected #1 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Scott, Zacharias

Seamon, Michael

Sturgis, Nathan selected #3 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Wahl, Tyson

Toronto FC

Barrett, Chad

de Guzman, Julian

Gala, Gabe

Garcia, Nick

Hscanovics, Raivis

Ibrahim, Fuad

Kocic, Milos

Martinez, Miguel Angel Ferrer

Nane, Joseph

Sanyang, Amadou

Saric, Martin

Usanov, Maxim

White, O’Brian – selected #6 by Vancouver WhiteCaps FC

Expansion Draft Rules (as provided by MLS Communications Department):

• MLS Clubs may protect 11 players between their Senior and their Developmental Roster. If the Player’s contract expires at the end of 2010, he will still be considered part of the Club’s Senior Roster.

• If a Club protects a player, it is not obligated to exercise the player’s option. It may renegotiate a new budget number for the player as in previous years.

• If a player retires, he will not be a part of the Senior Roster, but his Club will lose its right of first refusal to him should he ultimately decide to play.

• Players on a Club’s Developmental Roster, other than Generation adidas players who have not been graduated at the end of the 2010 MLS Season or Home Grown Players on a Club’s developmental roster, will be part of the expansion draft.

• Generation adidas players who have not been graduated at the end of the 2010 MLS Season and Home Grown Players on a Club’s developmental roster at the end of the 2010 MLS Season are automatically protected (Clubs do not have to use a protected slot on them).

• If Vancouver/Portland select a Developmental Player, it must offer him a Senior Roster position and he must be on the Senior Roster as of Roster Compliance Date.

• Clubs are restricted in the number of international player(s) that they may make available. Clubs may make available a number of international players equal to their total number of international players minus three, provided that if a Club has three or fewer international players it may make available not more than one.

• For purposes of this expansion process,

For US-based Clubs — any non-domestic US player (players that do not hold U.S. Citizenship or Residency) will count as an International.

For Toronto FC — any non-domestic US player or non-domestic Canadian players (players that do not hold Canadian OR U.S. Citizenship or Residency) will count as an International.

• Designated players are NOT automatically protected (i.e., Clubs must choose whether to protect such players and if such player is not protected, he will be available for selection in the Expansion Draft). However, if the Designated Player has a no-trade clause in his contract, then his MLS club must protect him and he will count as one of the 11 players who may be protected.

• Maximum Player Loss: Once two (2) players have been claimed from a Club’s non-protected roster, that Club is eliminated from the expansion draft and may not lose any further players. In addition, once a player has been claimed from a Club’s non-protected roster, that Club may move a player from its non-protected roster to its protected roster.

• Right to Negotiate: Vancouver and Portland will have the right to renegotiate a drafted player’s salary (either up or down) without having to place such player on waivers or giving his previous Club a right of first refusal.

• Priority: On the first day of the Discovery/Allocation Period, each of Vancouver and Portland will have priority over players on its USL roster and one additional player in the USL not on its roster, subject to another MLS Club’s right of first refusal.

• Rounds: The expansion draft will be 10 rounds.

A complete list of the Expansion Draft rules can be found on the Expansion Draft Page of MLSsoccer.com.

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